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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Keep things at arm's length. If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
